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"Then take me with you, and I will repeat them to her face"

"So? Well, then, here we are, at her very door I know not what she will say--you , they ascended the white steps leading to a very handsome brick house on the west side of Broadway It had wide iron piazzas and a fine shady garden at the back, sloping down to the river bank; and had altogether, on the outside, the very similitude of a wealthy and fashionable residence The door was opened by a very dark ro, and as dressed in a splendid and outlandish old-hooped earrings, and a long coat or tunic, heavily eerine pirate," whispered Arenta "My Uncle Jacob brought him here--and my aunt trusts him--I would not, not for a moment"

As soon as the front door closed, Joris perceived that he was in an unusual house The scents and odours of strange countries floated about it The hall contained ue nations were crossed in idle and harhly polished stairway into a large, low parlour, facing the vivid, everyday business draht's dream, for the Eastern atmosphere was supplemented by divans and sofas covered with rare cashs of Turkestan, and with cushions of all kinds of oriental splendour Strange tables of wonderful s of priceless worth; and porcelain frooddesses from the yellow Gehenna of China and the utterable idolatry of India, looked out with brute cruelty, or seazed with a fascinating prescience froh chimney-piece upon all who entered

The effect upon Hyde was instantaneous and uncanny His Saxon-Dutch nature was in instant revolt against influences so foreign and unnatural Arenta was unconsciously in sy of her pretty shoulders, as she looked around, "I have always bad dreas have a life of their own? Look at the creature on that corner shelf! What a serene disdain is in his saze into the very depths of your soul I see that there is a curtain to his shrine; and I shall take leave to draw it" With these words she went to the scornful divinity, and shut his offending eyes behind the folds of his gold-embroidered curtain